Google celebrates Sigmund Freud's 160th birth anniversary with doodle

NEW DELHI: Google has dedicated its today's doodle to mark the 160th birth anniversary of famous psychologist Sigmund Freud, also known as the Father of Psychoanalysis.

The doodle depicts Freud's most celebrated 'iceberg theory' by featuring the psychologist's face as the tip of an iceberg. The theory explains about conscious mind encompassing attention and thoughts, whereas the hidden base of the iceberg signifies the mysterious depths of the unconscious mind.

The Google doodle by Kevin Laughlin, is interpretative and needed to be watched carefully, shows only part of Freud's head floating above the surface of the water, while the rest of it is submerged within water. With a vast hidden base, the iceberg also references the murky depths of the unconscious mind.

Freud, who was born on 6 May 1856, died of mouth cancer, in 1939, in London at the age of 83.

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